We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

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Post by latexr » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 10:48 AM UTC

We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports
curl.se

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Post by treadump » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 11:01 AM UTC

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Post by jraph » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 11:02 AM UTC

Context: [1, 2]

> Open source code library cURL is removing the possibility to earn money by reporting bugs, hoping that this will reduce the volume of AI slop reports.

> cURL has been flooded with AI-generated error reports. Now one of the incentives to create them will go away.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46701733

[2] https://etn.se/index.php/nyheter/72808-curl-removes-bug-boun...

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Post by fp64 » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 11:04 AM UTC

treadump wrote: post #2

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Why bring politics into this discussion?

Edit: that person (or bot) has almost exclusively posted on this website about the current US president. I think it's a waste engaging and I already regret my comment here

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Post by mgaunard » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 11:05 AM UTC

The new era of AI.

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Post by ramon156 » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 11:06 AM UTC

treadump wrote: post #2

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Can you elaborate? What does trump have to do with allowing early denial of bad ORs

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Post by bennett_dev » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 11:07 AM UTC

treadump wrote: post #2

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Nothing to do with politics and everything to do with crappy AI slop. There was some list somewhere of some of those reports and it was painful to look at

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Post by cmonfriend » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 11:07 AM UTC

treadump wrote: post #2

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why are you linking this to politics? I have to deal with crap "security disclosures" every week. those, so called security experts, report security vulnerabilities for features I don't even have! They should be ridiculed in public!

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Post by diffuse_l » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 11:11 AM UTC

The policy link[0] page still has a link to the bug bounty program[1] which still discuss monetary compensation.

[0] https://curl.se/dev/vuln-disclosure.html

[1] https://curl.se/docs/bugbounty.html

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Post by iszomer » Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 11:12 AM UTC

treadump wrote: post #2

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Not Trump specifically but the various prevalent trends of online "cancel culture" experienced for the past decade or longer.